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Trump shared a deceptive video blaming ‘fake news.’ Twitter just labeled it as fake

Trump shared a deceptive video blaming ‘fake news.’ Twitter just labeled it as fake

4 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/18/trump-twitter-baby-video-manipulated-media/

The same day that Facebook removed a set of Trump campaign ads for violating the company’s rules against hate symbols, the president continued to push the envelope with his social media presence. On Thursday night, Trump shared a crudely edited video of two children with a fake CNN chyron reading “Terrified todler [sic] runs from racist baby.” Ironically, the video goes on to declare “America is not the problem, fake news is.”

The video, which had 7.9 million views at the time of writing, quickly earned Twitter’s “manipulated media” warning label, indicating just under the tweet itself that the content is not what it seems. Clicking through the warning label leads to a page fact-checking the tweet, including links to the original CNN share of the video of the two kids with the framing “These two toddlers are showing us what real-life besties look like.”